The rise in the number of years its been since I lived in North Carolina directly correlates with my obsession with all things North Carolina. And I’ve always been obsessed with Christmas trees. So meet …
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I was going to write a post about how Joes’ been waking up super early and we can’t figure out why, how I’m lying in bed at the Crack listening to him cry thinking weird …
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a thought that I thought
* poem by Nayyirah Waheed, the most ‘famous poet on Instagram’ which is now a thing* Joe hasn’t been sleeping great as of late, had a cold that he gave to us, so Morrison and …
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What kind of Mother
We zoom-toured a Montesorri School for Joe last week, a school that he’s been on the waitlist for SINCE HE WAS SIX DAYS OLD, and will still most likely not get into until he’s 3. …
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The Heart
Lately (always?) I’ve had trouble falling asleep, I can’t turn my brain off and / or just lay there looking at Joe’s little butt in the monitor hoping he won’t be up at 5 again, …
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Toddle Tale
Lately I don’t quite know what to put here, but I am maniacally committed to putting, even if it’s just a word, and the word is just HI or NO. My brain is mush of …
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Blessed Are
For mysterious (obvious) reasons that I can’t formally talk about yet, I’ve been reading (devouring) a lot of Rachel Held Evans’s writing, as of late. What I’d actually like to do is get her entire …
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Mom, Dad
I want to call myself the family Historian, but my brother Pete ACTUALLY knows the details about how our Grandfather’s family back in Germany came be known as Brunstetters (Brown town; people who fled from …
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Tangles
I have these two amazing necklaces that I want to wear every day — a wee pecan from Morrison and a Notebook from Ingrid — but literally, HOW does one wear more than one necklace …
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Flu Shot
Flu Shot: What’s up dummy! How’s it going? Me: Oh hey! Good, kinda / busy — Flu Shot: Coo, cool! Do you want me? Me: Oh! I actually don’t typically get one — I mean, …